Author Archive | Steve Picarde

No matter what services you provide or what products you sell, everything starts and ends with your staff. If the team is not up to snuff your business is sure to suffer. There are seven different signs it might just be time to start developing your people and adjust how everyone works together.

The time you take to make your employees feel comfortable and happy at work is well worth your while. The better they feel at work, the more inclined they are to stay there. This article offers some tips to improve employee retention.

You can find effective team building and morale-boosting activities and rewards at just about any budget. This article outlines a few ideas on how you can boost employee morale and keep teams working hard all year long.

No matter how many powerful resources providing insight into personality and cognitive ability you use for recruiting, the interview remains an important tool for identifying the best candidates. Here are five challenging interview questions that let you dig deeper and learn more about the candidates you interview.

Are you responsible for hiring or leading a group of employees? Do you know about the value of what some call “emotional intelligence” or soft skills? Do you know how to foster emotional intelligence amongst your employees?

If you don’t plan well before making an organizational change you will almost definitely have to plan for fallout after it’s made. After all, business is like a baseball game: when you get thrown a curveball you’ve got to be ready for it.

Employees who feel they are overqualified are often dissatisfied with their jobs, uncommitted to their company, and experience psychological strain. A good hiring process with additional questions built into the interview and a behavioral assessment will help guard against hiring people with an overqualified mindset.

Is everyone equally equipped to become a CEO so that anyone who strives hard enough can be a strong leader? Or are some of us born with a propensity for leadership, providing us with a distinct advantage from the start?